The Gold of Naples (Italian: L'oro di Napoli [ˈlɔːro di ˈnaːpoli]) is a 1954 Italian anthology film directed by Vittorio De Sica. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival.[2]
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Directed by | Vittorio De Sica |
Written by | Giuseppe Marotta (novel) Vittorio De Sica Cesare Zavattini |
Produced by | Dino De Laurentiis Marcello Girosi Carlo Ponti |
Starring | Silvana Mangano Sophia Loren Paolo Stoppa Totò |
Cinematography | Carlo Montuori |
Edited by | Eraldo Da Roma |
Music by | Alessandro Cicognini |
Distributed by | Ponti-De Laurentiis Cinematografica, Paramount Pictures, Distributors Corporation of America (US)[1] |
Release date | 11 February 1957 (USA) |
Running time | 131 minutes |
Country | Italy |
Language | Italian |
Box office | $72,000 (US rental)[1] |
The film is a tribute to Naples, where director De Sica spent his first years, this is a collection of 6 Neapolitan episodes: a clown exploited by a hoodlum; an unfaithful pizza seller (Loren) losing her wedding ring; the funeral of a child; the impoverished inveterate gambler Count Prospero B. being reduced to force his doorman's preteen kid to play cards with him (and losing regularly); the unexpected and unusual wedding of Teresa, a prostitute; the exploits of "professor" Ersilio Miccio, a "wisdom seller" who "solves problems".
Paramount did not take up its option to release the film in the United States and it wasn't until February 1957 that the film was finally distributed there, being shown at the Paris Theater in New York for 18 weeks, earning the distributor, Distributors Corporation of America, $72,000.[1]
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